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I am running a travel blog and I am running very low in space, although my pictures are very small in size. Could I have my disk space increased? I would not like to migrate the site elsewhere, as I am happy with this domain.

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Hi,

We can upgrade your account to unmetered disk space once you have used at least 50% of your disk space. You have used 176MB, so you wouldn't qualify for this upgrade right now. ;)

Thank you,
 

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I will be going over 50 % as soon as I get 3 more posts up :( , will the space increase automatically? or will I have to ask for it?
It stated somewhere when I registered tat i'd be getting unlimited disk space when I was 7 days, didn't it?
 

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You have to request it.

By the way, if three posts is going to consume 80MB, I'd take a good, hard look at your image file sizes - there's a 512MB cap on media. If your site is a travel blog (as opposed to a cleverly-disguised image gallery), then not all of your images need to be features (the equivalent of gatefolds and/or double-trucks in a magazine). Taking some of the image sizes down will allow you to get a lot more content images and "flavour" into your articles without blowing your media cap, and will still let you feature your best and most interesting images. You may want to look at a file optimizer like JPEGmini (or one of the online minimizers) as well; unlike most image editors, they take advantage of the fact that different parts of a JPEG image can have different compression levels, so you keep detail where you need it (without any visible artifacts), but things like wide-open skies can be compressed down to almost nothing when there's no detail there. That can save a ton of room.

If you do need a lot of large images, you're going to have to host them separately at an image hosting site and link to them in your blog (they can still appear on your pages, of course, they just won't be hosted on your website account).
 

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Ok! the 3 post was a figured speech. The link is on the post so you could have checked the size of the media before making assumptions.
Please could you answer my actual question about the disk space increasing as soon as I get over half of the 512 mb? or will i have to requested again for it?
Thank you
 

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I was also going by the fact that all of your images link, and what's on your page is named "xxxx_thumb.jpg", without actually opening all of the secondary images. Looks like everything is being stored twice for no good reason, even if there is no large version (that's probably just how your blogging software works). It would be a very good thing for you, from a disk space perspective, to find out if there's a good way to make that not happen when it doesn't need to. And the images I did look at all crunched down by at least 20% (least change found) in JPEGmini. Given that your site is image-heavy (and let's face it, it has to be), that 512MB media cap is a pretty low ceiling, so anything you can do to stay under it is a good thing.
 

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"xxxx_thumb.jpg", without actually opening all of the secondary images
I deleted all those images and then all my images disappeared.
that 512MB media cap is a pretty low ceiling
can that be increased?
If not can you point me to a server/hosting that I could store my images and link them to my blog? I tried dropbox, googledrive, and photobucket and it is not something i fond off.
 
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